TY - GEN
T1 - Negotiations Over Time in a Multi-Agent Environment: Preliminary Report
AU - Kraus, S.
AU - Wilkenfeld, Jonathan
N1 - Place of conference:Australia
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - One of the major foci of research in distributed
artificial intelligence (DAI) is the design of automated
agents which can interact effectively
in order to cooperate in problem-solving. Negotiation
is recognized as an important means
by which inter-agent cooperation is achieved.
In this paper we suggest a strategic model of
negotiation for N agents (N > 3), that takes
the passage of time during the negotiation process
itself into consideration. Changes in the
agent's preferences over time wil l change their
strategies in the negotiation and, as a result,
the agreements they are willing to reach. We
will show that in this model the delay in reaching
such agreements can be shortened and in
some cases avoided altogether.
AB - One of the major foci of research in distributed
artificial intelligence (DAI) is the design of automated
agents which can interact effectively
in order to cooperate in problem-solving. Negotiation
is recognized as an important means
by which inter-agent cooperation is achieved.
In this paper we suggest a strategic model of
negotiation for N agents (N > 3), that takes
the passage of time during the negotiation process
itself into consideration. Changes in the
agent's preferences over time wil l change their
strategies in the negotiation and, as a result,
the agreements they are willing to reach. We
will show that in this model the delay in reaching
such agreements can be shortened and in
some cases avoided altogether.
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M3 - Conference contribution
BT - IJCAI
ER -